1 AND 2, COUNCIL HOUSE COURTYARD
1 AND 2, COUNCIL HOUSE COURTYARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1247196
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 1 AND 2, COUNCIL HOUSE COURTYARD
- Statutory Address:
- 1 AND 2, COUNCIL HOUSE COURTYARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1247196
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 1 AND 2, COUNCIL HOUSE COURTYARD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1 AND 2, COUNCIL HOUSE COURTYARD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 1 AND 2, COUNCIL HOUSE COURTYARD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shrewsbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ4942512694
Details
SJ4912NW
653-1/11/250
10/01/53
SHREWSBURY
COUNCIL HOUSE COURTYARD
(South East side)
Nos.1 AND 2
GV
II*
Pair of houses. c1700, with substantial elements of an earlier
structure visible in No.1. Brick with Welsh slate roof.
3 storeys, 6-window range to courtyard elevation. Each house
of 3 bays, but differently planned: No.1 has central entrance
with 6-panelled door in pedimented architrave with Corinthian
fluted pilasters. No.2 has entrance to left with 6-panelled
door with overlight in moulded architrave with console
brackets to canopy. Windows are flush-framed 12-pane sashes
with moulded sills and flat arched gauged brick heads. Blank
recessed panels over windows in parapet. Stone angle quoins.
Rear elevation to garden of 3 storeys and 11 bays, with curved
gable ends and long parapet concealing roofline. Side
elevation of No.2 is largely an earlier construction, brick
and roughcast render over possible timber frame. Steeply
pitched roof and a series of axial stacks.
INTERIORS: early C18 staircases with turned balusters and
moulded tread ends, and some fine wall-panelling.
Listing NGR: SJ4942512694
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456412
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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